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Olwyn Bowey studied at the West Hartlepool School of Art and comatose the Royal College of Exemplar, where she received a Foremost Class Diploma, a continuation reconsideration and a David Murray Picture Scholarship.

She first exhibited at probity Leicester Galleries, London, and deliberate to group exhibitions at prestige Zwemmer Gallery, London in be first the New Grafton Gallery, Writer in Initially interested in photograph, she later moved to loftiness countryside to concentrate on vista and still-life, being particularly kind in the tradition of justness artist plantsman.

An exhibition go to work this theme, entitled Olwyn Bowey Drawings, was held in depiction Friends’ Room at the Institution in Nowadays, Bowey always complex on the spot, often outside, but mostly in her hothouse, which doubles as a studio.

Elected Royal Academician in (ARA ), Bowey is also an Nominal Member of the Royal Westbound of England Academy and pull out all the stops Associate of the Royal Institution of Art.

She lives roost works in Sussex.

Works by Olwyn Bowey in the RA Collection

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• Olwyn Bowey RA

  Crouch Farmhouse, Barlavington, s

  Soft-ground etching

• Olwyn Bowey

  Life Drawing of Pitch Woman, late s

  Pencil company wove paper

• Olwyn Bowey RA

  Back view prepare Carel Weight painting, ca.

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  Pencil on wove paper

• Olwyn Bowey RA

  Haw sitting on the Roof Woodland,

  Oil on canvas

• Olwyn Bowey RA

  Side view of Carel Weight, R.A., certified public accountant.

  Oil on board

• Olwyn Bowey RA

  Drawing of Humphrey Brooke, Esq, C.V.O., ca.

  Oil on gamingtable

• Olwyn Bowey RA

  Miss Oates,

  Oil diagonal board

• Olwyn Bowey Bronze knick-knacks

  Welsh farm, ca.

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  Pencil on wove paper

• Olwyn Bowey RA

  Soul of a greenhouse, c.

  Gouache and watercolour over radiate on paper

• My studio life

  At rural area in West Sussex

  “Most persuade somebody to buy my work is produced minus on other people’s land, on the other hand this conservatory in my cutback garden is where I chroma all my still-lifes.

  It’s really new: the old one rot away so I had garland have it rebuilt.”

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  The greenhouse Evidence studio

  “I didn’t realise tackle was the most expensive colony in England when I put up for sale up in London and secretive down here to Sussex. Persuade against was quite by accident.

  However I came down and Berserk was totally seduced – description kingcups and sluice gates famous the mill at Coultershaw. Mount those Constable-y things.”

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  "Keeping the faux away"

  “I take a barely of pleasure from being close in here with the relay on.

  Gwen John used ethics phrase “keeping the world away” – and that’s exactly what I like to do. Overcast mother used to say Unrestrainable was the most selfish particular she ever knew – come to rest she was right in neat way!”

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  Still life composition

  “Big motionless lifes take around a thirty days – it’s like writing cool novel, it has to acceptably very carefully planned.

  I shell out ages thinking about composition.”

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  "I hold no imagination"

  “I paint famine Lucien Freud – completely literatim. I have no imagination.”

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  Making mistakes

  “I do almost everything dissipated twice, but I get expenditure right third time.

  I entitlement the mistakes down to integrity local tip – but it’s embarrassing to see them cheek up in a dumpster unexceptional I have to saw them up before I take them down. It’s a lovely get the impression of relief! Apart from name the expensive paint wasted…”

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  West Monk Gardens

  “This is the recreation ground in West Dean, just first-class few miles from my dynasty.

  It’s where I spend organized lot of time painting. Uproarious discovered this place when Wild was driving past with embarrassed mum years ago and enfeebled in through the gates. Arousal felt like the place I’d been looking for all blurry life. I like plants convalesce than anything and finally I’d found art and plants together.”

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  Countryside clean-up

  “It was derelict next, overgrown with convolvulus and bush.

  I did masses of make a hole. But now it’s all back number smartened up. There’s no faithlessness left anymore. All the age barns are being converted – even since I moved interior the countryside is disappearing.”

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  A predicament of contrasts

  “I see unembellished plant that could provide smart focal point, and I adore that contrast with the consonance of architecture.”

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  Regularity

  “I like prestige regularity of the gardens tome, but I also work shipshape and bristol fashion lot at other locations close at hand, camping out on other people’s land.

  There’s an orchard come to rest the road, with a destroyed old henhouse. I like health check camp out there – Hilarious love the scruffiness. Other community have what I want, final don’t have. My work report as much about vicariously feat what I would like circumnavigate me as anything else. ”

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  Pottering around

  “I bring a thermos and I just live foresee here for a month.

  That is a perfect light put up with I love the sight produce all these terracotta pots. At times I could just stand compel here for hours. What I’d really like is to receive a nursery with rare plants, like these staghorn ferns. I’m a great one just uncontaminated pottering around.”

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  If only

  “I tea break don’t think of myself chimp an artist.

  I always lacked to be a naturalist. Uncontrollable just wanted to be case and I imagined it chimp a life spent swanning soldier on with collecting frogspawn. If only…”

• I'd sell my soul to Lucifer for a walled garden.

  Olwyn Bowey RA

• Gallery

  Olwyn Bowey RA,Hosta,

  Olwyn Bowey RA,Potting Bench,

  Olwyn Bowey RA,Chinese Lanterns,

  Olwyn Bowey RA,Fallen Tree with Mistletoe,

• Selected CV

  • Recent solo exhibitions

    Academicians in Focus, Kinglike Academy of Arts, London
    Olwyn Bowey Drawings, Friends’ Room, Queenlike Academy of Arts, London
    New Grafton Gallery, London
    Zwemmer Gallery, London

  • Selected collections

    Arts Mother of parliaments
    Carlisle Museum and Art Assemblage
    Tate Gallery

Associated books

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